Did Proposition 2 1/2 affect local public education in Massachusetts? Using a panel data set on school district budgets (1972–1992), the authors find the following. School districts constrained by Proposition 2 1/2 have significantly less own-source revenue. However, constrained districts...

Based on organizational theory, a contingency model of quality management practices is proposed, whereby quality management orientation, process choice, and environmental uncertainty are the contextualizing variables. The model posits that to maximize quality and firm performance, quality...

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students...

We try to show that the use of alternating decision making in an infinitely repeated prisoners' dilemma type game may enable sophisticated players to achieve perpetual cooperation starting from any initial position and without any prior communication, and that the ability of players to do so...

We use panel data on fossil fuel fired power plants to examine the impact of Phase I of the Title IV SO2 trading program on electric utility employment. We find little evidence that power plants had significant decreases in employment during Phase I relative to non–Phase I power plants. This...

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The property tax revolt of the 1970's and 1980's saw many "new" restrictions placed on local government budgets. Most of these restrictions took the form of local tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) which focused on property taxes. The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not local...

This paper examines whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. We consider the net effect of statutory, enforcement, and compliance asymmetries by estimating the relationship between plant size and pollution abatement expenditures, using...

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1985, considering, both labor and total factor productivity, both levels and...

We began this project interested in collecting real-world' insight about how environmental regulation affects the paper industry. Based on conversations with people in the industry and visits to paper mills, we formulated several hypotheses related to technology choice in new mills and the...